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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2019-10-24 09:26:26 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2019-10-24 09:26:26 +0200 |
| commit | b7cf324fd8eb68db3b1893bac5414a5514c8ca81 (patch) | |
| tree | bb9e17c0e96757ef830a077989fb3bfacf18576c /man2 | |
| parent | 5fbce8f22b802ef68b1ffda70f476232ff503e40 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-b7cf324fd8eb68db3b1893bac5414a5514c8ca81.tar.gz | |
clone.2: Minor change: move a paragraph from DESCRIPTION to NOTES
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man2')
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/clone.2 | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man2/clone.2 b/man2/clone.2 index a688e9b3ab..55fae566d0 100644 --- a/man2/clone.2 +++ b/man2/clone.2 @@ -80,11 +80,6 @@ But see the description of .B CLONE_PARENT below.) .PP -One use of -.BR clone () -is to implement threads: multiple flows of control in a program that -run concurrently in a shared address space. -.PP When the child process is created with .BR clone (), it commences execution by calling the function pointed to by the argument @@ -865,6 +860,12 @@ Memory writes or file mappings/unmappings performed by one of the processes do not affect the other, as with .BR fork (2). .SH NOTES +.PP +One use of +.BR clone () +is to implement threads: multiple flows of control in a program that +run concurrently in a shared address space. +.PP Note that the glibc .BR clone () wrapper function makes some changes |